Clinical epidemiology
Subtitle: the essentials
By: Robert H. Fletcher, Suzanne W. Fletcher, Grant S. Fletcher
Contributors: Fletcher, Suzanne W.; Fletcher, Grant S.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781451144475
Subjects: Epidemiologic Methods
Description: Now in its Fifth Edition, a comprehensive, concise, and clinically oriented introduction to the subject of epidemiology. Written by expert educators, this text introduces students to the principles of evidence-based medicine that will help them develop and apply methods of clinical observation in order to form accurate conclusions. The Fifth Edition includes more complete coverage of systematic reviews and knowledge management, as well as other key topics such as abnormality, diagnosis, frequency and risk, prognosis, treatment, prevention, chance, studying cases and cause.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Frequency; title: Abnormality; title: Risk : basic principles; title: Risk : exposure to disease; title: Risk : disease to exposure; title: Prognosis; title: Diagnosis; title: Treatment; title: Prevention; title: Chance; title: Cause; title: Summarizing the evidence; title: Knowledge management.